Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a dynamic stock scraper that traverses HTML DOM structures to locate stock prices. Understand parsing methods, assign confidence scores to identify relevant data, and calculate maximum potential profits. This lesson helps develop skills in DOM traversal and data extraction applicable to coding interview problems.
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Introduction
Extracting data from a website is known as scraping. The main component of scraping is fetching data from the HTML DOM structure after receiving a response from the website. You can think of web scraping as a spider crawling over every corner of an HTML structure and retrieving information of interest.
The scenario and problems we will discuss in this chapter relate to scraping stock data from websites.
Statement
You are a developer ...